State Banking in Early America

• The first book treatment in over 40 years that focuses on early American Banking
• Explores regional differences in banking structures, which bear indirectly on the connection between financial and economic development
• An essential reference for those interested in American Banking History

Readership: Historians, Bank Regulators, and Political Scientists.

Howard Bodenhorn, Associate Professor, Lafayette College

"Good economic history should be both good economics and good history. This book is good economic history, and Bodenhorn has clearly aimed for an audience of both economists and historians." - Bradley Hansen, Eastern Economic Journal, Winter 2006

"Bodenhorn's book aptly fills in the details of the emergence and meteoric growth of one of these components, and describes how lessons learned in the period of early state banking have gone on to shape the institutional forms that remain with us today." - EH.Net 2003

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Establishment and Governance of the Antebellum Bank
3: Banking Theory and Banking Practice in Antebellum America
4: New England: Small Banks and Familial Ties
5: The Rise and Fall of the Suffok System
6: Middle Atlantic: Conservatism and Experimentation
7: New York's Safety Fund System: America's First Bank Insurance Experiment
8: Free Banking: A populist Revolt Takes Root in new York
9: Banking in the South and West: Banks and the Commonwealth
10: Property Banking, Free Banking, and Branch Banking
11: Assessing America's Early Banks
Bibliography
Index